"9th Floor" replied Matt as he opened the door and got out of the room.
"9th floor! Why? Is there something special on the 9th floor" asked Mike as he and Ethan followed Matt and got out of the room as well.
Once again entering the hallway the reaction of the two differed from the previous ones, even though they still couldn't stand the foul smell, they weren't reacting by scrunching their noses and making faces.
"It's not the 9th floor but the floor above it that is important," Matt replied as he and the others moved towards the elevator.
The elevator was on their floor only so they didn't;t had to wait for it to come back nor did they had to be vigilant as Matt and Ethan had just returned from the same elevator before.
Entering the elevator this time Ethan asked "The 10 floor is VVIP floor which only has two rooms in it and is one of the reasons that Royal Star hotel is famous, you want to take everyone to stay there?"
"You are absolutely correct. In the beginning, I thought that we will stay in our rooms for the night and I will clear the 9th and 10th floors in the next day for us to stay but this smell of the zombies isn't something the girls will be able to sleep with so here we are" Matt said as the elevator stopped on the 9th floor.
Matt motioned the two to be vigilant as the doors of the elevator started to open, understanding Matt's signal, the two of them pressed there back against the side of the elevator while Matt stood straight at his place with his American Black Eagle Kukri in his right hand while a utility knife in his other hand.
The door opened and Matt saw a man in the uniform of the bell boy of the hotel, his pale skin, and black teeth gave him away as the zombie. Matt didn't attack the zombie until he saw him stumble towards him. The moment he started to move towards him Matt threw the utility knife in his left hand straight towards the zombie, which stuck itself in the zombies head. The zombie fell forwards towards Matt who sidestepped to get away from him and used his right leg to lift the body of the dead zombie then let it fall slowly so that it doesn't make noise and alert the other zombie.
Once again Mike was surprised by Matt's display of strength as he couldn't even react when Matt had thrown the utility knife.
After taking care of the zombie Matt peaked out of the elevator and saw two zombies each of them was busy in trying to open the doors in front of them and weren't looking in their direction.
"Ok there are two zombies one at the right side the other on the left and I want the two of you to deal with them. Ethan is already accustomed to cut the zombies head but Mike isn't so Ethan first you will deal with one zombie and Mike will watch it and after that Mike will take care of the other zombie." Matt said
The two of them didn't object to his idea as both had their own reason for that. Ethan was still trying to prove that he was an asset to him and Mike didn't want to be a liability to Matt.
Ethan moved out of the elevator and walked towards his right after taking out 6 to 7 zombies, he was a little confident that he could take care of one zombie by himself.
As Ethan walked towards the zombie and was just a meter away from him, the zombie finally noticed him.
"Garh.. ahh!" came the noise from the zombie's mouth as he stumbled towards Ethan.
The zombie lunged towards Ethan the moment he reached him but Ethan was already ready for him and dodged the zombie by sidestepping. The zombie bit nothing but air as it fell on the ground. Not letting the chance go Ethan swings his fire ax removing the head of the zombie from its body.
Mike and Matt who were standing by the elevator saw all of this and were impressed. Matt because he knew Ethan had talent and Mike because he thought Ethan was fast and swift just like Matt.
"No you have seen how it's done, take care of the one behind us," Matt said.
"WHAT!?" exclaimed Mike as he turned his head only to see that the zombie that was at the end of the hallway near the fire exit was standing almost right behind them, just half a meter at most.
Mike gripped the handle of the fire ax tightly "Aaahh!!" he shouted and swings the fire ax at the zombies' head as he lungs towards them and his claw moves towards his throat.
Before the claw could reach Mike's throats, the zombies' heads slowly fell as dark red blood spewed two meters up from the wound in his head. But the next moment, Mike's expression of joy and relief became one of horror. The wound on the head of the zombie wasn't enough to kill it. It let out a mad growl, then moved towards Mike with its sharp claws.
The fire ax was stuck in its skull and couldn't be pulled out. Mike trembled all over, trying his hardest to pull the fire ax out, but the more anxious he became, the more scared he got, and his hands became weaker. It was like the zombie in front of him was growing more and more powerful so much so that he even forgot that by his side there was a zombie slayer standing with his knife ready.
Finally nearly limp, watching the zombie jump toward him, it's rotten stench already hitting his face, Mike's eyes widened.
'No... no... I can't be such a coward... I had promised myself that I will make up to every mistake I have done and I haven't even done one of them...'